Christianity Refutes Itself

Christianity is an intellectually repugnant worldview. To subscribe to it is to abandon all reason – and that is why it is so difficult to extract from the psyche of those infected by its doctrines. Once one has thoroughly abandoned reason, they are no longer sentient beings in any meaningful sense of the phrase; they become nothing more than automatons to doctrine.

At the core of Christianity is the father/son relationship – a core archetype of humanity. In any father/son relationship there are two distinct people representing a line of succession. In Christianity, however, the son IS the father; they are simply two different aspects of a being that apparently has three aspects in total, all of which are equal and one.

This, of course, means that the relationship between Jesus and Yahweh is NOT that of father and son – a core archetype of humanity. This leaves bullshit spewing Christian apologists suggesting that ‘things are different on a divine level’. Of course, if ‘things are different’ then they aren’t the same, to which the same brain-dead cunts would beg to differ ‘on a divine level’. With a single foundational doctrine, the cult of Christianity undermines the adherent’s ontological capacity. To the Christian, things that are can’t be and things that can't be are. I can’t believe that sentence actually passed my word-processor’s grammar check.

On top of disregarding the absence of the central ‘father/son’ relationship, Christians go on to talk about the willingness of Jesus to ‘sacrifice’ himself for their salvation. Is Jesus dead? No! Of course not! He’s Christ for Christ’s sake! He currently lives in Heaven and is coming back. What exactly was his sacrifice? Living here in the world with us so that he could know just how hard it is for us to be perfect?

If that were the story, then perhaps Christianity would be onto something. Yahweh was a really hateful prick until he beamed himself into a human body and experienced life down here in the weeds, then he realized the peril of being a perfect being in an imperfect world and decided he could forgive us all our trespasses as long as we gave it our best shot. Would he then repent and beg our forgiveness for drowning the world’s population minus eight? Would our prayers go something like, “Dear Yahweh/Jesus, we forgive you all your trespasses and ask that you continue to forgive us all ours. Amen.” That story, however, would require that Jesus didn’t commit suicide by centurion. It would require that he lived out a full life down here, facing the trials and tribulations of raising children, suffering the loss of his own youth, and dying in obscurity like most of the rest of us peons down here.

That isn’t the story, however. The story says that Jesus ‘died’ for our sins; except that in Christian mythology there is no such thing as death. Perhaps, to tie back into the father/son archetype of succession, Yahweh died at the moment Jesus’ body failed on the cross and Jesus really did succeed Yahweh. In this case, however, Yahweh sacrificed himself because of his petty anger towards us and handed the crown to Jesus who, contrary to sacrificing himself, gained literally everything on the cross. That isn’t even close to Christianity, however; although I can already sense that some confused Christians may come to suspect this as a doctrine after reading it here.

So, even accepting all the events of the bible as true, Christianity has no father, no son, and no sacrifice. Without getting into Yahweh’s other sons, mentioned in Genesis 6:2, or moral dilemmas of an all-loving god that tortures the faithful either as a bet or to ‘test’ them, one can see that the very foundations of the Christian faith thoroughly refute themselves. The only way to ‘believe’ such malarkey is to absolutely disregard fact and reason in favour of subverting one’s own intellect to the assertions of clerics that take ten percent of your wages for lying to you. If a mind is a terrible thing to waste then Christianity is an intellectual holocaust.

Well, there you go. That's why it's not finished yet. Thanks for the feedback. You've no idea how difficult it is to find people to talk about it with, but when I do, it always moves things forward. When I've got all my reading done I'm going to approach the Buddhists (there's a centre near where I live) and see if I can collaborate with one of them. My philosophy is partly based on theirs, but the same framework also exists in at least Christianity and Islam, so I can draw freely from all of them and use science to underpin the whole thing.

You have trouble finding people with whom to have discussions because you do not discuss - you just keep asserting the same ideas over and over, never supply your supporting resources (those scientific studies you keep telling us about), and generally behave like a cult leader who just tries to bully the truth into existence while remaining vague enough so as to never make a specific statement.

It is clear that you've spent most of your life dealing either with the religious or a very large population of illiterate, half-daft people. In retrospect, I suppose there isn't much difference between the former and the latter. Anyway, if you want to have 'discussions' here then you need to actually make statements that clearly represent your position and then accept that position as being entirely misguided when it is clearly demonstrated as such, over and over and over again.

The atheist perspective is a very valid one and brings something new to the table. The insistence on facts and explanations is a very good idea and grounds the whole framework in reality, thereby making it ten times more useful and accessible.

@ Gregg- you are exactly right. For some reason our political and judicial systems do not appreciate Atheists.... they also don't appreciate our sense of humor. I asked if I could just promise to tell the truth without all the pomp of doing so over a book of lies... they immediately asked me to leave. Yes, it does work every time. I haven't even gotten another summons! It's been almost 10 years now~